It concludes with our book reviews section, spotlighting Theatres of Value by Danielle Rosvally and Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama by Noam Reisner.

43.2 continues with twelve performance reviews including two reworkings of Hamlet – The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel), presented by the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and Grand Theft Hamlet, a documentary filmed within GTA Online.

Want to learn more about author Gloria Naylor? Check out The Gloria Naylor Archive, which makes her collected works widely accessible to all: wordpress.lehigh.edu/naylorarchiv...

Interested in the history of the New York Shakespeare Festival? The NYPL archives has digitized records from 1954-1999 (which includes the production of Midsummer that Naylor saw!), linked here: archives.nypl.org/the/21550

Laurie Maguire reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Twelfth Night, dir. Prasanna Puwanarajah.

🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/twelfth-nigh...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/971403

📷: Helen Murray

Hanh Bui reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2024 production of Pericles, dir. Tamara Harvey.

🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/pericles/pas...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/971401

📷: Johan Persson

Scott Shepherd reviews Oh! Ophelia, Ophelia, presented by Choi Sung-ok’s Meta-dance Project as part of the 2024 K Stage Festa at Myeongdong Theater.

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/971399

📷: Sang Hoon Ok

David Cottis reviews Half Trick’s 2024 production of Antonio’s Revenge, dir. Courtney Bassett.

🎭: halftrick.com#antonio

📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

📷: Eliza Roberts

Suzy Lawrence reviews the 2024 production of Kiss Me, Kate at the Barbican Theatre, dir. Bartlett Sher.

🎭: kissmekatemusical.com

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/971398

📷: Johann Persson

For readers interested in how Shakespeare is often considered both universal and “fundamental to a white American university education”, check out this Medium article on The King, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V: medium.com/the-sundial-...

Check out Southern Oregon University’s interview with Oskar Eustis, director of the Public Theater's 2017 Julius Caesar which depicted Julius Caesar as Donald Trump: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLnH...

Want to read more about the importance of salience over relevance in Shakespeare? Take a look at Dadabhoy and Mehdizadeh's Anti-Racist Shakespeare, available through Cambridge University Press: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

See more about Kenny Leon’s Othello, set in 2028 in an attempt to circumvent the audiences’ presumed assumptions of relevance, in this Broadway Buzz article:
www.broadway.com/buzz/205231/...

For more information on Black classicism, take a look at Elizabeth S. Humphrey’s article ““Classica Africana”: Black American Participation in Nineteenth-Century Classicism”, on the Bowdoin College Museum of Art website: bcma.bowdoin.edu/antiquity/cl...

Want to learn more about demographics of theatre audiences? Check out The Broadway League’s reports on the makeup of their 2023-2024 season here: www.broadwayleague.com/research/res...

For readers interested in post-modern critical race studies, check out Kimberly Anne Coles, Kim F. Hall, and Ayanna Thompson’s article “BlacKKKShakespearean: A Call to Action for Medieval and Early Modern Studies” profession.mla.org/blackkkshake...

Excited to learn more about Fat Ham? Meet the playwright, James Ijames and learn more about Fat Ham’s journey on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRWX...